An academy where anyone can train in the exciting acrobatic sports of parkour and freerunning.

Junkbots and mud babies are the masterpieces in this fantastically sci-fi art museum.

The Empire Mine is "one of the oldest, largest, deepest, longest and richest gold mines in California."

One of the most powerful computers in the world can be visited by anyone who wants to experience more computing than they can handle.

One of the longest water bridges in the world was built over a supposedly haunted swamp in Louisiana.

A 19th-century Gothic, castle-like statehouse by the Mississippi River.

A Cajun-style Christmas on the river also involves sky-high pyres and explosives.

For 150 years one family has been producing the iconic hot sauce on a bayou island made of salt.

This Maine bridge may be the last wire-supported bridge of its type in the world.

Sculptures, jams, and the wild west collide at this folksy retreat.

The world's oldest and largest museum of mass transit vehicles.

This colorful theme park dedicated the official fruit of Maine serves sweet, tasty treats.

True to its name, this bouncy walkway may be the world’s smallest suspension bridge.

The highest point in Maine is a grand gift to the state citizens that also happens to be one end of the Appalachian Trail.

This tiny patch of arid sand sits in one of the greenest states in the United States.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

The site where Poe "in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance" likely died.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

It's not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music's library has been described as a "cathedral of books."

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

This traditional garden in the San Fernando Valley doubled for Star Fleet Academy, and is irrigated entirely by wastewater.

Russian history in San Francisco.